Organizational knowledge is a crucial aspect for the strategic planning of an enterprise. The enterprise architecture management (EAM) deals with all perspectives of the enterprise architecture with regard to planning, transforming and monitoring. Maturity models are established instruments for assessing these processes in organizations. Applying the maturity model development process (MMDP), w...

IT alone is no longer sufficient for business success. Companies need to control enterprise-wide processes and adopt matching actions. This paper presents an overview of existing approaches of Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM). By reasoning, the importance of integrated EAM for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) is underlines. The study is structured as a systematic literature revi...

While elaborate enterprise architecture management (EAM) methods and models are at architects’ disposal, it remains an observable and critical challenge to actually anchor, i.e. institutionalize, EAM in the organization and among non-architects. Based on previous work outlining design factors for EAM in light of institutional theory, this work discusses the theoretical grounding of respective d...

Enterprise applications are complex systems that are hard to develop and deploy in organizations. Although software application development tools, frameworks, methodologies and patterns are rapidly developing; many projects fail by causing big costs. There are challenging issues that programmers and designers face with while working on enterprise applications. In this paper, we present the thre...

Enterprise interoperability enables the access to relevant information within an enterprise. Traditionally, enterprise integration implementations are managed as merely technological solutions, but integration requirements outcome from business process needs, such as just-in-time information and integration with strategic partners. Without a business process driven methodology that comprises bo...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the domain of standards with respect to achieving the best enterprise integration. There are some definitions about frameworks and architectures, discussions re the use of enterprise models and modeling, the key components and characteristics of these models, a description of the users of the models and their needs, enterprise-model drivers and their rel...

The basic purpose of an Enterprise Architecture project is creating integrity among different enterprise components, including processes, systems, technologies, and etc. While CMMI focuses on improving the process of an organization and covers necessary elements relating to one organization distinguished by different maturity levels referenced as level 1 through level 5. In our previous paper [...

This paper compares concepts of maturity models in the areas of Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Systems Usage. We investigate whether these concepts correlate, overlap and explain each other. The two maturity models are applied in a case study. We conclude that although it is possible to fully relate constructs from both kinds of models, having a mature architecture function in a company...

The ability of organizations to innovate is acknowledged as an essential capability to compete in a competitive market. This paper proposes to use enterprise architecture management as a systematic approach to innovate the enterprise. The enterprise architecture approach is based on a comprehensive architecture framework which aligns the domains of business -, application and infrastructure arc...